From Slash to Stevie: The Rock Star Name Quiz

A love of finger jewelry inspired the name "Ringo." And earlier in his career, Starkey's drum solos were called "Starr Time."

Legally, his first name is "Michael" now. But Aday says he was once detained for six hours in Germany because he had "Meat Loaf" on his passport. He was given the nickname by a football coach in high school because of his hefty weight.

At age 13, Stevland Morris enjoyed his first No. 1 Billboard hit. He dropped the word "Little" from his stage name in the 1960s when he turned 15.

Supposedly, Vincent Damon Furnier changed his legal name to "Alice Cooper" in 1974 after a witch who contacted him via a Ouija board.

Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. originally hailed from Roswell, New Mexico and said he chose the stage name "because my heart longed to live in the mountains." That would be the Rocky Mountains surrounding Denver, Colorado. Denver maintained a home in Aspen, Colorado, for all his adult life.

Growing up, Hudson got to know Cassel (a familiar face in Wes Anderson movies) who was the dad of a friend. Cassel called the boy "Slash" because of his high-energy levels.

"Nobody's going to make a monkey out of you," said his manager. David Robert Jones was the late artist's legal name. Bowie was a tribute to Jim Bowie, the Texas rebel in the movie "The Alamo."

The pair once came across a black and yellow sign that said "Spyder's Dinner Club" and the rest is history.

While "Freddie" was a nickname from school, no one is sure why "Mercury" was added. It might've been a nod to the Roman god — or an allusion to the song "My Fairy King," which has a line about "mercury, mercury."

A friend gave Paul Hewson the name after the local Bonavox hearing aid store. Initially he didn't like the name until he found out it stood for "good voice." Bono Vox was soon shortened to just Bono.